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Old English became my favorite thing about college. The grammar is easy, so it’s not difficult to learn. And enough early medieval words survived into modern English that the vocabulary seems ...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth Franklin writes.

Because so few Old English texts have survived – the equivalent of about “30 medium-sized novels,” Dr. Videen says – the complete meanings of unusual words are sometimes lost to us.

Bulldogs originated hundreds of years ago in England, bred for bull baiting (antagonizing a bull for sport and theater) ...

Old English literature is rife with passages testifying to appreciation of the sterner mood of nature, a cognizance of her wintry phenomena, her rigors of land and sky and water.

From traditional old English baby names for boys, like Edmund and Wilfred, to iconic old English baby names for girls, like Blythe and Ethel, this giant list of 150 old English options has got you ...